Creative Writing Classes
Creative Writing Essentials
February 2026 - Black Mountain Center for the Arts
CLASSES:
1) Finding Inspiration, Getting Started
2) Building Complex Characters
3) The Importance of Setting
4) Crafting Catchy Dialogue
Developing Characters in Fiction & Non-fiction
Spring 2026 - The Writer’s Colony
CLASSES:
1) What Makes A Compelling Character?
2) Character Arc: Generating Conflict & Plot From Distinctive Traits
3) Character Web: Building Character Through Relationships
4) Tying Character to Story World
5) Defining Character Through Dialogue
6) Rounding Out Character Through Endings
The True Story: A Fiction & Memoir Writing Class
Fall 2025 - The Writer’s Colony
CLASSES:
1) Ways In: Mining Memory, Finding Inspiration
2) Building Believable Characters
3) Memoir as a Kind Of Literary Fiction
4) Dialogue: Making Characters Speak
5) Playing With Time: How To Flashback, Flash Forward, and Give Backstory Without Losing Your Reader
6) Revision as Gardening, Not Demolition